Teams from the Bahrain army and the US Navy have failed to locate the body of a Bahraini pilot whose F-16 crashed at sea on Saturday....

An international search and rescue operation was underway yesterday to locate a missing Bahraini jet which disappeared on Saturday night. Its pilot, who has been named by relatives as 38-year-old Abdulaziz Snan Al Dossary, was also still missing yesterday....

A Bahraini air force F-16C has crashed Saturday evening during a training flight in northern Bahrain. The fate of the pilot is still unknown....

Last Thursday, an ANG F-16 flying too low during an attempt to make a touch-and-go maneuver at Libby Army Airfield clipped power lines along the highway. The jet severed one wire, hurling it into the highway and damaging two passing vehicles....

The Belgian government has offered 14 F-16 MLUs (12 F-16AM, 2 F-16BM) with logistical support and equipment for sale to the Czech republic....

Jordan, which allowed the United States to base special forces in its eastern desert during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, is asking the Pentagon to provide about $100 million worth of upgrades to its F-16 fighter jets and AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters....

The Bush administration asked the U.S. Congress Thursday to approve a $550 million, 12-year loan to the Czech Republic that would enable them to buy 14 used F-16s....

An F-16C from the Texas Air National Guard's 147th Fighter Wing crashed Monday afternoon in rural western Louisiana. The pilot ejected and was in satisfactory condition at a hospital at the Army's nearby Fort Polk....

Air Force investigators determined an F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed after at least one Spot-billed Duck was ingested into the engine, resulting in catastrophic engine failure, according to a report released Sept. 18. ...

AeroGroup Inc., the small company that raised a big commotion this summer over its F-16 flights, has moved out of Melbourne International Airport. ...

The Air Force Thunderbirds will not fly this week in Maryland or Kansas, and the Air Force said Tuesday that the demonstration team's schedule for the remainder of the year is in question following a crash Sunday in Idaho....

The Israeli company RSL Electronics announced today that it received an order to supply 28 engine starting system controllers for F-16s to the US Air Force. ...

According to Pakistani sources, the United States and Pakistan are expected to reach an agreement in Washington this week for the resumption of defence supplies to Islamabad....

Lockheed Martin recently conducted a number of successful flight tests of its Sniper XR Advanced Targeting Pod on F-15E and F-16 fighters. During the battery of tests, the targeting pod's availability was rated at 100 percent and each mission successfully completed its objectives. Testing was conducted at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Edwards AFB, Eglin AFB and the Air Force Reserve Test Center in Tucson, AZ....

An Air Force Thunderbird F-16C crashed and exploded during an air show in Mountain Home, Idaho, Sunday afternoon. The pilot managed to eject from the F-16 and was uninjured....

BAE systems successfully demonstrated its Advanced Airborne Reconnaissance System (AARS) during August flight trials at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. AARS was flown on a U.S. Air Force F-16 Block 50 fighter aircraft at altitudes up to 50,000 feet. ...

The Edwards F-16 Mid-Life Update (MLU) test program recently had the unique opportunity to utilize two NATO aircraft during a weeklong evaluation of its improved datalink system, the Link-16. ...

Singapore recently announced that it is going to upgrade its fleet of Block 52 F-16s, to Block 60 standards. Singapore is also eyeing new Block 60's as a replacement for its ageing A-4SU Super Skyhawks....

For the next two months, the F-16s will vanish from the skies over Osan as the Air Force shuts down its' base runway for spot repaving. ...

The United Arab Emirates has ordered 354 Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser tail kits for its planned fleet of F-16 Block 60s....

An Israeli F-16 dropped a 1,100-pound bomb on the home of a senior Hamas leader in a residential area of Gaza City early today, killing his son and a bodyguard and injuring 30 people....

U.S. allies in the Middle East are expected to see significant delays in the delivery of the F-16s. Israel has already been told of a delay in the delivery of the F-16I. Egypt and Greece could also be expected to see delays over the next few months....

An American F-16C belonging to the 35th FS crashed during a routine training mission today in South Korea at about 10:05am local time. The pilot ejected safely....

Yesterday, an Israeli F-16 Fighting Falcon dropped a 550-pound laser-guided bomb on a three-story building downtown Gaza City. The bomb targetted Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin who was holding a meeting in the appartment. ...

The commander of Kunsan Air Base's 8th Operations Group is putting two squadrons of F-16 pilots on a six-month night-flying schedule for practice in the rigors of night combat flying. The 8th Fighter Wing's 35th Fighter Squadron and 80th Fighter Squadron will take part in the training from October to March....

The US Department of Defense awarded Boeing a $24 million contract to produce 100 Joint Helmet- Mounted Cueing Systems (JHMCS) by July 2005. The order includes 66 systems for the US Air Force's F-16 fleet....

The US government has offered a nine billion US dollar arms sale to Pakistan to help it shore up its defence capability. The exact content of the package is yet to be discussed, but the upgrade of Pakistan's existing F-16A/B fleet and the purchase of 40 new F-16s will be discussed....

Zygo Corporation will soon commence delivery of the critical sapphire windows which will be used in the F-16 Block 60's Integrated Forward-Looking Infrared and Targeting System (IFTS), which is being developed by Northrop Grumman....